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Quite a few readers expressed interest in seeing some clamp deals for the holidays.

Good news: there are a couple of deals worth mentioning. Bad news: pickings are slim right now.

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I expected that there will be some parallel clamp deals once Black Friday officially hits. And there might be some other pre-Black Friday and holiday season clamp deals I haven’t seen. (If you find a great deal, please let us know!)

I bought one of these Dewalt clamp sets. They’re pretty ordinary trigger clamps, and the 4-piece set comes with 2x 12-inch clamps, and 2x 6-inch clamps.

The larger ones have greater max clamping pressure, and can also be converted into spreaders.

While not a crazy-good deal, $30 seems decent. I’ll be testing them out soon, and I guess if I’m happy enough I’ll pick up a second set. Amazon and HD have the same price online, something to keep in mind if your local HD sells out.

Lowes had a couple of different Irwin clamps on sale, none of them with price labels yet.

There were some medium-duty Irwin Quick-Grip bar clamps on the left side of the display. I don’t think there were enough for the clamps to be HOT BUYS, if you know what I mean.

There’s a 4-pack of Irwin Quick-Grip trigger clamps, presumably for $20. This promo pack comes around every once in a while, usually with “buy 2 get 2 free” wording and a $20 price tag.

I bought 2 sets of these clamps a few years ago, and they’ve held up okay. They’re relatively light weight clamps, and I’d go so far to call them convenience clamps – clamps that you don’t really use for crucial applications.

Even though I’ve got 8 of these clamps, I’ve been on a mission to step up. I don’t like my Bora’s, so that’s why I’m giving the above Dewalts a try. But if you need a bunch of light duty clamps, and like the quick application of trigger clamps, these clamps are about the cheapest usable clamps I’ve found.

These are basic clamps that don’t have a spreader feature.

I couldn’t find these on Lowes.com, but I did find some new lighter-duty-looking models.

Since we’re talking about clamps, maybe you’ll also be interested in knowing that the Worx Pegasus clamping portable workbench has been discounted to $99. We’ll be reviewing one shortly, but in the meantime, I’m optimistic.

I’ve used this portable bench a few times, and find its design to be curious. The legs are removed and docked underneath the workbench for storage and transport, and I’ve found this to work better than expected. It creates a stable base, probably more so than if the leg assembly were based on some kind of folding system.

This Husky portable workbench is one of the best values I’ve seen, and also one of the least compromised designs.

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While not exactly a clamp deal – Acme Tools is having a 15% off site-wide sale today (11/7) – using code IVOTED15 – you can buy clamps or anything else – but need to spend over $199 if you want free shipping – otherwise shipping is $6.49 flat rate

Zoro is also doing a 20% off with free shipping – but you need to spend $200 or more. Their Promo code is PCKT0K0N

I took a look at them at Lowes today – at least what they had in stock. The display seemed pretty decimated – with only 1 or 2 pieces of each item left.
The packaging all proclaims “NEW” – so I guess not having seen them before may not be too surprising. A quick check on the Internet doesn’t show many other retailers beyond Lowes.
I think most of them said that they work with Quick-Grip Medium Duty clamps. One of the two extender pieces said “Heavy Duty”. I found it kind of silly that they sell the1964756 clamp stands individually – as they are clearly needed in pairs to work – but maybe that’s a pricing gimmick to keep them at $7.98. The store display also had the 1964755 edge clamping gizmo priced at $5.98 – claiming it to be a new lower price.

The band clamps are great when you need them, I don’t have frequent application for them, but they are great to use when I do, I got them on sale for $15 each a few years ago, only complaint is the crank handle is a little small (I also have huge hands though).

That Husky workbench is great. I use it as a perfect miter saw stand for my cordless 7 1/4″ saw. It has held up well over the last 10-12 months of use. I still deem it unusable as a router table since the tops is bowed giving you no flat work surface to use.

I have the larger DeWalt trigger style clamps and love them. I can always use more smaller light duty clamps so I think I’ll also try the HD DeWalt clamp special.

Never kew about that either. I recently moved and was doing a project this weekend and was cursing looking for my clamps, could have sworn I had more. Guess it’s time for a little trip to THD. 🙂 And I have older manual clamps that are tougher on my hands not the quick grip ones, so more incentive.

Unless they’ve reworked them, I’d pass on the DeWalt trigger clamps. I bought some last year to give ’em a try. They aren’t in my shop any longer. Way too much work to get way too little clamping pressure. The best trigger clamps in my experience have been the Quick-Grips, with a shout out to the fallen flag Jorgensen ISD’s. The Quick Grips put down a smidge more pressure and work flawlessly, but the larger one’s are not very friendly to one’s hands when honking the clamps down hard. The ISD’s were much more comfortable in-hand but would sometimes fail to re-cock the trigger.

Everything is a compromise. For pure strength in bar clamps – nothing beats those that use and I-Section bar – stronger and sometimes heavier than pipe clamps. At the other end of the spectrum are aluminum bar clamps and light-duty quick-grip type clamps. So to amend the saying:
“you can not have too many or too many types of clamps”